ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 27890

Halifax County, North Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

780
Property rate /100K (county)
2,341
Population (ZIP)
280
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 27890 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 27890 sits within Halifax County, NC. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Halifax County reported a violent-crime rate of 280 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 780 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

With 2,341 residents, ZIP 27890 is among the smaller ZIPs in Halifax County (#7 of 7 by population), spread across 9.21 square miles (254/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Halifax County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Halifax County crime page linked below.

ZIP 27890 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Halifax County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 27890 Census context

These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.

Median household income
$31,063
Median age
30.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
49%
Occupied homes
869

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 27890?

Within the participating-agency records for Halifax County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 20% below and property crime is 54% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 27890. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

Within the county, 27890 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#7 of 7). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Halifax County UCR book ZIP 27890 inherits

ZIP 27890 itself is about 254 people per Census sq mi across 9.2 sq mi (2,341 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 27890 accounts for roughly 4.8% of the county reporting population (2,341 of 48,622).

Halifax County leans on larceny-theft at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,752). ZIP 27890 has no separate FBI offense book.

Halifax County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +24% vs 2023; property counts +7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Halifax County offense mix (2024)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 27890

Similar county violent rate (~280/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,341)

County detail: Halifax County · State atlas: North Carolina

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).

Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.